Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics, disparity, and evolutionary rates
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Journal: Edinburgh
Manuscript ID TRE-2018-0013.R1
Manuscript Type: Early Vertebrate Evolution
Date Submitted by the Author: 25-Jul-2018
Complete List of Authors: Ruta, Marcello; University of Lincoln, School of Life Sciences Krieger, Jonathan; Home address, 11A Wynford Road ForAngielczyk, Peer Kenneth; Review Field Museum of Natural History, Earth Sciences, Integrative Research Centre Wills, Matthew; University of Bath, The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry
amniotes, eigenshape analysis, evolutionary rate shifts, humeral Keywords: morphology, lepospondyls, lissamphibians, tetrapodomorphs
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The evolution of the tetrapod humerus: morphometrics,
disparity, and evolutionary rates
Marcello Ruta1,*, Jonathan Krieger2, Kenneth D. Angielczyk3
and Matthew A. Wills4
1 School of Life Sciences,For University Peer of Lincoln, Review Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK 2 11A Wynford Road, Poole BH14 8PG, UK
3 Earth Sciences, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, Illinois 60605 2496, USA
4 The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, The
University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
* Corresponding author
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ABSTRACT: The present study explores the macroevolutionary dynamics of shape changes in the humeri of all major grades and clades of early tetrapods and their fish